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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
